Full moon tonight, and life goes on without our cat Tegan

The moon will be full tonight, which in many circles is call for celebration. We are a bit in mourning today however, as our feline companion Tegan died today. She was sixteen years old, and has been JSP's constant companion for all that time. I have only known her for ten years. She moved with us across the sea to the Netherlands, then to Philadelphia, before making her final home with us in Northeast Minneapolis.

Tegan had been fighting with something that had stripped her ability to eat and drink. She was slowly starving to death, so, to save her the pain of that sort of death, we choose to have her put down at about noon today.

JSP and I will miss her and the place that she held in our home as our princess is now vacant.

JSP wrote about her in August, 2005's Friday Cat Blogging and June, 2007's Wild Cat in Tame Surroundings .